If you're a consumer, then virtual private network (VPN) services are a good way to protect your information from prying eyes. But for IT professionals and businesses, the situation can be very different. Here's why.

A demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a type of network segmentation that used to be mandatory for any organization connected to the internet. But the cloud has made a DMZ unnecessary for the majority of IT environments and here's why.

President Trump has signed an executive order establishing the 'American AI Initiative' to federally fund artificial intelligence R&D in the US and retrain the workforce in response to automation. The plan is light on details and loaded with China subtext.

Bottom Line: GoDaddy has evolved into a mature and flexible web hosting provider that offers a slew of tools and services to help satisfy most website needs, but we saw some instability in our testing.

VPNs are good for more than protecting your data in transit and hiding your location. Enterprise VPN technology can radically increase security, your overall network's reliability, and even your bandwidth.

In the past month, PC Labs has reviewed some tasty new tech, including cloud services that span everything from CRM and language learning to security and web hosting. We also tested a new workhorse printer and a smart NAS box for storage. Read on for more.

Ransomware is one of the fastest and most destructive forms of malware attacking small businesses today, yet most companies still have no direct protection against this threat. We test five of the top business-grade anti-ransomware packages around and find not only added data safety, but friendly price tags, too.

Bottom Line: ESET Endpoint Protection is aimed squarely at business customers and delivers excellent overall detection rates at a very nice price. While it has some trouble with phishing attacks, it still leads the pack in overall protection, including anti-ransomware, and is an easy pick for an Editors' Choice award.

Bottom Line: Bitdefender GravityZone Elite maintains its top spot among our business-grade security platforms with excellent detection of even unknown threats. great customization, and new capabilities around anti-ransomware protection.

Bottom Line: F-Secure Protection Service for Business is a solid choice for a hosted endpoint protection software solution, marred only by a slight weakness in exploits packed with scripting languages such as Ruby, and a less-than-stellar Reporting module.

Bottom Line: Overall, Panda latest Adaptive Defense 360 platform does a solid job at protecting users against known malware, even ransomware. But to do that it needs to restrict users more than most of the competition and it still has a few detection weaknesses besides.

Bottom Line: Trend Micro does a good job with its Worry-Free Business Security Services. The product can protect most endpoints against most standard malware threats, though it had trouble with the more advanced exploits. With good support for mobile platforms and even some defense against ransomware, this is a solid security contender.

Backing up your business data is essential, and the days of relying on tape backup are over. You'll have a much easier time storing your data in the cloud, and we review the top 10 players that make this possible.

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